New paper out! ✨

With my friend Alvaro Doria Dos Santos, we describe a new Masona from Brazil! 🇧🇷

Now we have Masona wow (2024) & Masona uau (2025)!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s117...

You are the best Rachel ..thanks for being there...truly...

I will be defending my Ph.D. on Tuesday, June 24th! 🎓
7 years of work, and I’m finally ready to share it.

Join me at 9:00 AM ET / 1:00 PM UTC on Zoom:
🔗 ucf.zoom.us/j/94509007226

Open to all — would love to see you there! :-)

📢 New publication!
Proud to share our comprehensive checklist of Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae) from Chile—published with an amazing South American team! 🇨🇱🔬

Honored to be part of this years-long collaboration.

doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Ichneumonidae #Chile #Entomology

Hi @mdoering.bsky.social, we would love to be considered as a replacement once the entire transfer is completed. At this stage, though, we are not there yet, but we are working on it with the Species File Group to make it happened ASAP. :-)

Thank you so much for considering us! :-)

We absolutely should! Let's do it!

We can easily discuss it! :-) Feel free to email me and we can chat better! :-)

Thank you! We would like to work on it next. We tried to focus on the "smallest" subfamily first (I am tackling Ichneumoninae, but that's just me). We are done with them and we are movign to the medium one (which Rhyssinae is in). I will start with that right away. Unless, you want to help us! :-)

Hi @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social, in WID we count 25 worldichneumonidae.com#/otus/681611...

It is possible that GBIF did not count some? This is one of the completed subfamily in the database! :-)

Agreed! And at some point we should find a way to connect WID with ichsofna (integrating them in some way). The future seems wonderful! :-)

...and last thing: we are working on having all the "old names" updated very soon. We may have found a way to import all the names faster! Stay tuned!

Even if WID was updated and could push name into GBIF or CoL, I am not sure how this will interact with the automatic push from these other catalogues/sources. The good thing is that a wrong authorship (also in a paper) does not create an unavailable name (only confusion).

I would also add to what @rdmpage.bsky.social said: the World Ichneumonidae Database is still not pushing names or data to GBIF or CoL (yet). We are will implement these passages once all the old names are included into WID.

We are featured in the @bdj.pensoft.net page!

New paper out! 🎉 Thrilled to co-author this study led by Filippo Di Giovanni, with expert Andrey Khalaim.

We update the Italian checklist of Tersilochinae, adding three new records and a synonym, building the foundation for future research on Italian Darwin wasps!

Here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

I would say so. :-)

🚨 Exciting news! The CSE Conference is happening this Saturday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (ET)! 🎉

We have 24+ presentations covering a wide range of taxa, and scientists across the globe. 🌍🐝🔬

If you're interested, contact me for details!

See you there! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 #Entomology #Taxonomy #CSEConference